Michael Moritz: the journalist who became a billionaire

Michael Moritz was Time’s correspondent for Silicon Valley, but a falling out with the magazine saw him instead create what he had been reporting on. That was a lucrative move. Jane Lewis reports.

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Moritz: consistently successful
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When the British hedge fund Man Group announced in January that it was pulling its sponsorship of Britain's most famous literary prize after 18 years, some thought the Booker would struggle to find a new sponsor. It has, after all, had a history of generating the kind of high-octane rows that give corporate backers the heebie-jeebies. Man Group was said to have felt "under-appreciated" after being branded "the enemy" by novelist Sebastian Faulks last year. "Man Group are not the sort of people who should be sponsoring literary prizes, they're the kind of people literary prizes ought to be criticising," he said.

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Jane writes profiles for MoneyWeek and is city editor of The Week. A former British Society of Magazine Editors editor of the year, she cut her teeth in journalism editing The Daily Telegraph’s Letters page and writing gossip for the London Evening Standard – while contributing to a kaleidoscopic range of business magazines including Personnel Today, Edge, Microscope, Computing, PC Business World, and Business & Finance.

She has edited corporate publications for accountants BDO, business psychologists YSC Consulting, and the law firm Stephenson Harwood – also enjoying a stint as a researcher for the due diligence department of a global risk advisory firm.

Her sole book to date, Stay or Go? (2016), rehearsed the arguments on both sides of the EU referendum.

She lives in north London, has a degree in modern history from Trinity College, Oxford, and is currently learning to play the drums.